People in the News—Jan. 25, 2018—Drinker Biddle & Reath
Drinker Biddle & Reath expanded its white-collar defense and corporate investigations team with the addition of Antonio M. Pozos, a former trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division, fraud section.
January 25, 2018 at 10:00 AM
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Additions
Drinker Biddle & Reath expanded its white-collar defense and corporate investigations team with the addition of Antonio M. Pozos, a former trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division, fraud section.
He will reside in the firm's Philadelphia office.
During his time with the DOJ, Pozos prosecuted health systems, health system executives, home health care agency owners, doctors and other health care industry professionals for health care fraud and other major offenses as part of the Medicare fraud strike force and corporate strike force.
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Speakers
Dilworth Paxson attorney James Landgraf spoke at a Burlington County Bar Association CLE program titled “Application of the Consumer Fraud Act in the Construction Project.”
Landgraf has more than 30 years of experience handling construction and related real estate contracting, construction litigation and complex commercial and business litigation.
His clients include public and private owners, commercial and residential real estate developers, prime contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and design professionals.
Elected and Appointed
Duane Morris promoted Barry Steinman to firm partnership.
Steinman represents public and private issuers, underwriters and individual investors in a wide range of transactional work.
His experience includes follow-on public offerings of equity, debt and other securities; compliance under federal securities and Blue Sky laws; the fulfillment of ongoing obligations under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's periodic reporting system; preparing proxy statements; effecting resales of securities in the public trading markets under SEC Rule 144; private issuances under SEC Sections 4(a)(2), 4(a)(6), 4(a)(7) and Regulation D; and advising boards of directors concerning compliance under securities laws.
He is a 2007 graduate of Cornell Law School.
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Post & Schell principal James R. Malone Jr. was elected as secretary-treasurer of the Philadelphia Bar Association's tax section for 2018.
The PBA's tax section studies and makes recommendations to appropriate legislative, executive, administrative and judicial authorities with respect to any existing or proposed law, regulation, ruling or procedure relating to federal, state or local taxation.
Malone leads Post & Schell's tax controversy practice and represents clients in disputes with federal, state and local tax authorities in both administrative proceedings and in court.
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John Koch was promoted to Weisbrod Matteis & Copley's partnership.
Koch represents policyholders and corporate clients in environmental and insurance coverage matters.
He focuses his practice on helping clients recover insurance proceeds in connection with varying types of underlying liability, including liability for environmental contamination and latent injuries.
Events
“Criminal Justice Reform: A Townhall Meeting With PA Secretary of Corrections John E. Wetzel” is set for 5:15 p.m. Jan. 30 in the Blank Rome Classroom of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.
The League of Women Voters Radnor Township along with the David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo Center for Ethics, Integrity and Compliance are scheduled to host a townhall event featuring Pennsylvania Secretary of Corrections John E. Wetzel who will discuss the past, present and future of criminal justice policy in Pennsylvania.
The event is co-sponsored by the Villanova University Department of Sociology and Criminology.
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